{"id":27629,"date":"2021-08-25T06:01:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T06:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=27629"},"modified":"2021-08-25T06:01:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T06:01:13","slug":"china-state-media-says-us-vp-harris-seeking-to-divide-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2021\/08\/25\/china-state-media-says-us-vp-harris-seeking-to-divide-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"China state media says US VP Harris seeking to divide Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 id=\"leadtext\"><strong>Chinese state media on Wednesday accused US Vice President Kamala Harris of seeking to drive a wedge between China and its Southeast Asian neighbours with her comments that Beijing used coercion and intimidation to back its South China Sea claims.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Harris made the comments in a speech in Singapore on Tuesday as part of a seven-day regional visit aimed at pivoting the United States back to Asia and countering China&#8217;s growing influence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While pointing a finger at China and accusing it of &#8216;coercion&#8217; and &#8216;intimidation&#8217;, Harris wilfully ignored her own hypocrisy in attempting to coerce and intimidate regional countries to join Washington in its scheme to contain China,&#8221; the state run China Daily said in an editorial.<\/p>\n<p>Harris&#8217; Singapore speech was a baseless attack on China, the editorial said. &#8220;It seems that the United States&#8217; only commitment to Southeast Asia is its dedicated efforts to drive a wedge between the Southeast Asian nations and China,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>The US administration has called rivalry with China &#8220;the biggest geopolitical test&#8221; of the century and Southeast Asia has seen a series of high-profile visits by top administration officials, including Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who visited Hanoi in late July.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese state media on Wednesday accused US Vice President Kamala Harris of seeking to drive a wedge between China and its Southeast Asian neighbours with her comments that Beijing used coercion and intimidation to back its South China Sea claims. Harris made the comments in a speech in Singapore on Tuesday as part of a seven-day regional visit aimed at pivoting the United States back to Asia and countering China&rsquo;s growing influence. &ldquo;While pointing a finger at China and accusing it of &lsquo;coercion&rsquo; and &lsquo;intimidation&rsquo;, Harris wilfully ignored her own<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27631,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27629\/revisions\/27631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}